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In the seventeen months since London's Libertines released their awesomely shambolic debut, the drug addiction and legal troubles of singer-guitarist Pete Doherty have practically kept the British music press in business. Slightly less tuneful than its predecessor, The Libertines makes Doherty's dramas seem less a roadblock than a crucial ingredient; no band in recent history has better captured the vertiginous experience of falling apart and loving it. With Clash legend Mick Jones producing them again, Doherty and Carl Barat trade melodic slurring and mumbled choruses while propulsive guitar grooves take left turns and threaten to careen out of control. Tough and heart-rending, "Can't Stand Me Now" and "What Became of the Likely Lads" reach out to the drunken lout inside us all, and for "The Man Who Would Be King," Doherty has an answer worthy of his own quixotically fucked-up self: "La-la/La-la-la/La-la-la-la-la-la-la."
(Posted: Sep 16, 2004)
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Track List
- Can't Stand Me Now
- Last Post on the Bugle
- Don't Be Shy
- The Man Who Would Be King
- Music When The Lights Go Out
- Marcissist
- The Ha Ha Wall
- Arbeit Macht Frei
- Campain of Hate
- What Katie Did
- Tomblands
- The Saga
- Road to Ruin
- What Became of the Likely Lads
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FRANCE (HIDDEN TRACK) (track not available in Rhapsody)
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